Handymen Essay

Poets often use figurative language and imagery to appeal to the five senses and express a main idea. This poem is called Handymen, by Cornelius Eady. The author uses similes, metaphors, personification and imagery to appeal to your senses and to express a main idea. Figurative language and imagery are used in the poem Handymen to express that handymen can fix things but regular people can't. The author uses figurative language to express an idea and to show how certain things are broken. The poet uses similes and personification to show that the furnace is broken. ¨The furnace wheezes like a drenched lung¨(line 1). ¨The furnace wheezes¨, is an example of personification. Personification is used to show how the furnace is broken by giving it the characteristics of a …show more content…
The poet uses Imagery to show that the ice is freezing the power lines because the person did not take care of them correctly. ¨The ice turns the power lines to brittle candy¨ (line 11). This is an example of imagery, this example is used to help the reader better visualize the power lines. This image proves the thesis because it shows that the person did not take care of the power lines correctly. The author uses imagery to show that a person does not know how to fix the power lines correctly. The poet uses personification to show that a person does not know how to fix things. “Your fingers are dumb against the hammer” (line 8). Personification gives an inanimate object human like characteristics. The line “your fingers are dumb”, shows that you do not know how to hold or use a hammer. This proves the thesis because it shows how normal people do not know how to fix things. The author uses imagery and personification to help the reader visualise broken objects and to show that normal people do not know how to fix or take care of